Chess Olympiad happening in Turkey 2012 runs it way to round 4. In the top board, USA draw to India, Hikaru Nakamura won but Gata Kamsky lost a score to Pentala Harikrishna. Azeri also draw to Germany and give a chance to rivalry country Armenia sneak into the top standing by their win against unfortunate Phillipine, who hold strong until board four IM Oliver Dimakiling cracked by Gabriel Sargissian.
On the local country news, Indonesia lost its hopes to at least hold strong neighbouring country Vietnam. The final score is 0.5-3.5 with only IM Taufik Halay managed to hold on IM Nguyen Van Huy in board three. GM Megaranto Susanto gone to complicated English game against Le Quang Liem and lost in 45 moves. This is another important encounter to Megaranto against Le which ended up decisive.
Rather good news is to the girls, Indonesia hold England 2-2. Medina and Chelsie draw their important opponent. The turn of victory gone to board three, fellow "dream team" Dewi Citra Aa score her first important victory to Sarah Hegarty. In a lucky white against Black's sicilian, Dewi exchange blunder in the last part of game and won the final. But then missing chain in fourth person, fill by rookie Anisa Aisyah couldn't hold quite popular WFM Chevannes Sabrina, Anisa blundered in solid position on move 27.. Qe8 and lost quickly afterward.
Result for Indonesia 2012 Chess Olympiad round 4
Vietnam Rtg - 68 Indonesia Rtg 3½: ½
24.1 GM Le, Quang Liem 2693 - GM Megaranto, Susanto 2529 1 - 0
24.2 GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son 2639 - IM Purnama, Tirta Chandra 2384 1 - 0
24.3 IM Nguyen, Van Huy 2506 - IM Halay, Taufik 2361 ½ - ½
24.4 IM Nguyen, Doc Hoa 2505 - CM Firmansyah, Farid 2318 1 - 0
Indonesia Rtg - 44 England Rtg 2 : 2
28.1 WFM Medina, Warda Aulia 2218 - WGM Corke, Anya 2254 ½ - ½
28.2 WIM Sihite, Chelsie Monica 2162 - WFM Yurenok, Maria 2058 ½ - ½
28.3 WFM Citra, Dewi 2143 - WFM Hegarty, Sarah 2120 1 - 0
28.4 Aay, Aisyah Anisa 1818 - WFM Chevannes, Sabrina 2090 0 - 1
Di ronde empat, pupus harapan Indonesia untuk setidaknya menahan tim kuat Vietnam karena hasil akhir adalah suram 0.5-3.5 untuk tim Merah Putih. GM Susanto Megaranto yang kembali harus menghadapi musuh bebuyutan GM Le Quang Liem terpaksa menyerah setelah masuk ke permainan komplikasi di pembukaan Inggris. IM Taufik Halay berhasil menahan seri dan memberikan satu-satunya point di pertemuan ini.
Di bagian puteri sedikit kabar gembira dihasilkan dengan menahan seri tim England 2-2. Medina dan Chelsie sukses menahan lawan mereka. Giliran menang ada di papan ketiga oleh Dewi Citra memukul Sarah Hegarty di pembukaan Sicilia. Pembukaan ini cukup beruntung bagi putih dengan hasil 1-0 yang banyak dibukukan dalam turnamen ini oleh pemain putih dan menular juga ke kubu Indonesia. Kedua pemain saling melakukan kesalahan, di langkah 37 putih melakukan kesalahan yang kelihatannya tidak disadari hitam dan justru hitam yang melakukan kesalahan fatal berikutnya. Sayangnya "mata rantai yang hilang" di orang ke empat tidak mampu diemban Anisa Aisyah dan dia harus kalah melawan Sabrina Chevannes, terlihat kekurangan pemain keempat ini signifikan bagi tim Indonesia yang tidak membawa WGM satu-satunya Indonesia, dan pemain rating tertinggi puteri, Irene K. Sukandar.
Di berita Olimpiade Catur 2012 Turki lainnya, papan atas kubu Amerika Serikat harus puas dengan hasil 2-2 melawan tim kuat India. GM Hikaru Nakamura kembali membukukan kemenangan tapi mantan penantang juara dunia (dua kali) GM Gata Kamsky menyerah di tangan GM Pentala Harikrishna. Di papan negara pecahan Sovyet Azerbaijan gagal melajukan ambisi mereka dengan ditahan tim Jerman 2-2. Ini membuat rival negara Armenia mencuri kesempatan naik ke posisi atas dengan mengalahkan tim Phillipines. GM Wesley So dan rekan berhasil menahan GM Levon Aronian dkk tapi Oliver Dimakiling gagal menahan Gabriel Sargissian, Phillipine pun dipaksa naik peringkat.
Malaysia juga menderita kekalahan 0.5-3.5 melawan Finland. Tim Singapore yang dimotori GM Zhang Zhong eks China sukses 3.5-0.5 mengalahkan tim Panama.
Dewi Citra Aa mengalahkan Sarah Hegarty 1-0
Le Quang Liem - Susanto Megaranto 1-0
Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
2012 Olympiad Round 3 Indonesia defeat Ecuador
Moving to round 3 of 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul Turkey, Indonesia team manage to overcome quite an equal opponenets, team Ecuador. In the final score, the Red White team scored 2.5-1.5. By this result, Indonesia pocketed 4 points stayed at 44th position.
In the women party, Indonesian girls also face Latin team, Cuba. Top board and rising star Medina unlikely get her another luck and must submit 0-1 score to the opponents. A single victory stealth by Monica Chelsie Sihite against 2345 rating WGM Pina Vega Sulennis. Indonesian girls must satisfied with position 55th and three points collected so far.
Scoreboard for Indonesian team 2012 Olympiad Round 3:
Ecuador Rtg - 68 Indonesia Rtg 1½:2½
GM Matamoros, Carlos 2548 - GM Megaranto, Susanto 2529 ½ - ½
FM Guerra Tulcan, Lenin 2424 - IM Purnama, Tirta Chandra 2384 0 - 1
IM Macias Murillo, Bryan 2365 - CM Firmansyah, Farid 2318 0 - 1
IM Mieles Palau, Daniel 2370 - CM Muhammad, Luthfi Ali 2078 1 - 0
Bo. 15 Cuba Rtg - 54 Indonesia Rtg 3 : 1
WGM Ordaz Valdes, Lisandra 2344 - WFM Medina, Warda Aulia 2218 1 - 0
WGM Pina Vega, Sulennis 2345 - WIM Sihite, Chelsie Monica 2162 0 - 1
WGM Arribas Robaina, Maritza 2296 - WFM Citra, Dewi 2143 1 - 0
WIM Llaudy Pupo, Lisandra 2264 - Aay, Aisyah Anisa 1818 1 - 0
Hasil akhir di ronde tiga Olimpiade Catur di Istanbul Turki mencatat Indonesia 2.5 - Ecuator 1.5. Hasil bagian putera ini membawa Indonesia mengantongi angka 4 dan berposisi no.44, di atas Malaysia dan Singapore tapi sama dengan Vietnam. Di mana tim Vietnam akan menjadi ujian terberat pertama Indonesia di babak ke empat. Hasil di tim puteri masih lebih berat karena kalah 1-3 melawan tim Amerika Tengah Kuba. Untung Chelsie Monica mampu memberikan hiburan dengan mengalahkan WGM Pina Vega yang dua ratus point rating di atas Monica. Chelsie bermain putih dan menaklukkan permainan Sisilia lawan, di mana hingga langkah 40 telah berhasil membuat kombinasi skak mat karena lawan terburu-buru melangkah pion f4 di saat raja hitam sedang dalam posisi bahaya di kelilingi benteng putih.
Tayang ulang partai Monica Chelsie vs Pina Vega bisa dilihat di bawah ini:
Monica Chelsie Sihite - Pina Vega Sulennis 1-0
In the women party, Indonesian girls also face Latin team, Cuba. Top board and rising star Medina unlikely get her another luck and must submit 0-1 score to the opponents. A single victory stealth by Monica Chelsie Sihite against 2345 rating WGM Pina Vega Sulennis. Indonesian girls must satisfied with position 55th and three points collected so far.
Scoreboard for Indonesian team 2012 Olympiad Round 3:
Ecuador Rtg - 68 Indonesia Rtg 1½:2½
GM Matamoros, Carlos 2548 - GM Megaranto, Susanto 2529 ½ - ½
FM Guerra Tulcan, Lenin 2424 - IM Purnama, Tirta Chandra 2384 0 - 1
IM Macias Murillo, Bryan 2365 - CM Firmansyah, Farid 2318 0 - 1
IM Mieles Palau, Daniel 2370 - CM Muhammad, Luthfi Ali 2078 1 - 0
Bo. 15 Cuba Rtg - 54 Indonesia Rtg 3 : 1
WGM Ordaz Valdes, Lisandra 2344 - WFM Medina, Warda Aulia 2218 1 - 0
WGM Pina Vega, Sulennis 2345 - WIM Sihite, Chelsie Monica 2162 0 - 1
WGM Arribas Robaina, Maritza 2296 - WFM Citra, Dewi 2143 1 - 0
WIM Llaudy Pupo, Lisandra 2264 - Aay, Aisyah Anisa 1818 1 - 0
Hasil akhir di ronde tiga Olimpiade Catur di Istanbul Turki mencatat Indonesia 2.5 - Ecuator 1.5. Hasil bagian putera ini membawa Indonesia mengantongi angka 4 dan berposisi no.44, di atas Malaysia dan Singapore tapi sama dengan Vietnam. Di mana tim Vietnam akan menjadi ujian terberat pertama Indonesia di babak ke empat. Hasil di tim puteri masih lebih berat karena kalah 1-3 melawan tim Amerika Tengah Kuba. Untung Chelsie Monica mampu memberikan hiburan dengan mengalahkan WGM Pina Vega yang dua ratus point rating di atas Monica. Chelsie bermain putih dan menaklukkan permainan Sisilia lawan, di mana hingga langkah 40 telah berhasil membuat kombinasi skak mat karena lawan terburu-buru melangkah pion f4 di saat raja hitam sedang dalam posisi bahaya di kelilingi benteng putih.
Tayang ulang partai Monica Chelsie vs Pina Vega bisa dilihat di bawah ini:
Monica Chelsie Sihite - Pina Vega Sulennis 1-0
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
2012 Chess Olympiad Round 2 Medina Aulia Wins
Round two of 2012 Chess Olympiad gives the Indonesian team first real deal of tournament. The girls facing Bulgaria is hard encounter and finish in 2-2 score. Medina scores another wins to Iva Videnova in first board, got a check mate in 4 for the black king in 30 moves of Sicilian game. The men team facing Chile is out of luck, result 1.5-2.5 points slip away in board 2 and 3.
Round 2 results:
Indonesia - Chile 1½:2½
24.1 GM Megaranto, Susanto 2529 - GM Morovic Fernandez, Ivan 2575 ½ - ½
24.2 IM Purnama, Tirta Chandra 2384 - GM Vasquez Schroeder, Rodrigo 2533 0 - 1
24.3 IM Halay, Taufik 2361 - GM Flores Rios, Mauricio 2498 0 - 1
24.4 CM Firmansyah, Farid 2318 - FM Salinas Herrera, Pablo 2417 1 - 0
Indonesia - Bulgaria 2-2
7.1 WFM Medina, Warda Aulia 2218 - WGM Videnova, Iva 2317 1 - 0
7.2 WIM Sihite, Chelsie Monica 2162 - WGM Nikolova, Adriana 2299 ½ - ½
7.3 WFM Citra, Dewi 2143 - WGM Voiska, Margarita 2281 ½ - ½
7.4 Fisabilillah, Ummi 0 - WIM Raeva, Elitsa 2313 0 - 1
Memasuki ronde ke dua, tim Merah Putih Indonesia baru mulai menghadapi tim tangguh hasil saringan dari ronde pertama. Di tim puteri, Medina kembali membukukan kemenangan atas lawannya berating 2300an Iva Videnova dari tim Bulgaria. Sayang walaupun papan ke-2 dan 3 berhasil ditahan oleh Chelsie dan Dewi Citra, namun di papan terakhir Ummi tidak bisa menahan lawan WIM nya Elitsa Raeva. WGM Irene Sukandar absen dari tim Olimpiade adalah sebuah tanda tanya besar. Di bagian putera, Indonesia kalah satu point dari lawan tangguh Chili. Di hasil ASEAN lainnya, Vietnam dan Singapore tumbang, Filipina menang. Malaysia menang atas tim merah putih lainnya Monaca, kemenangan dibukukan oleh IM Lim, Yee Weng (atas Villegas, Pierre) dan IM Liew, Chee-Meng (atas FM Gentilleau, Jean-Philippe).
Partai Medina Aulia vs Iva Videnova 1-0
Round 2 results:
Indonesia - Chile 1½:2½
24.1 GM Megaranto, Susanto 2529 - GM Morovic Fernandez, Ivan 2575 ½ - ½
24.2 IM Purnama, Tirta Chandra 2384 - GM Vasquez Schroeder, Rodrigo 2533 0 - 1
24.3 IM Halay, Taufik 2361 - GM Flores Rios, Mauricio 2498 0 - 1
24.4 CM Firmansyah, Farid 2318 - FM Salinas Herrera, Pablo 2417 1 - 0
Indonesia - Bulgaria 2-2
7.1 WFM Medina, Warda Aulia 2218 - WGM Videnova, Iva 2317 1 - 0
7.2 WIM Sihite, Chelsie Monica 2162 - WGM Nikolova, Adriana 2299 ½ - ½
7.3 WFM Citra, Dewi 2143 - WGM Voiska, Margarita 2281 ½ - ½
7.4 Fisabilillah, Ummi 0 - WIM Raeva, Elitsa 2313 0 - 1
Memasuki ronde ke dua, tim Merah Putih Indonesia baru mulai menghadapi tim tangguh hasil saringan dari ronde pertama. Di tim puteri, Medina kembali membukukan kemenangan atas lawannya berating 2300an Iva Videnova dari tim Bulgaria. Sayang walaupun papan ke-2 dan 3 berhasil ditahan oleh Chelsie dan Dewi Citra, namun di papan terakhir Ummi tidak bisa menahan lawan WIM nya Elitsa Raeva. WGM Irene Sukandar absen dari tim Olimpiade adalah sebuah tanda tanya besar. Di bagian putera, Indonesia kalah satu point dari lawan tangguh Chili. Di hasil ASEAN lainnya, Vietnam dan Singapore tumbang, Filipina menang. Malaysia menang atas tim merah putih lainnya Monaca, kemenangan dibukukan oleh IM Lim, Yee Weng (atas Villegas, Pierre) dan IM Liew, Chee-Meng (atas FM Gentilleau, Jean-Philippe).
Partai Medina Aulia vs Iva Videnova 1-0
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
2012 Chess Olympiad Round 1 - Indonesia Menang Ronde 1 Olimpiade Catur
Weeks after London Summer Olympic and Paralympic, human greatest mind games, chess, launched its Olympiad version. 40th World Chess Olympiad began today at the Istanbul Expo Center, 27th August to 10 September 2012 is the dates. A record breaking 158 teams compete in the Open Section, while the Women Section has 124 teams participating.
From Indonesian team , playing in Istanbul are:
1 WFM Medina Warda Aulia 2218
2 WIM Sihite Chelsie Monica 2162
3 WFM Citra Dewi 2143
4 Anisa Aisyah Aay
5 Fisabilillah Ummi 0
is Women team. Team flying without WGM Irene Sukandar, but the team looks forward to stealth moments and grab some norms. Round 1 finished with easy 4-0 against Fiji team.
The men:
1 GM Megaranto Susanto 2529
2 IM Purnama Tirta Chandra 2384
3 IM Halay Taufik 2361
4 CM Firmansyah Farid 2318
5 M. Luthfi Ali 2078
seeding at no.62 Indonesian crushed Ethipian team in round 1 and look forward to face Chile team (seed 24) in round 2.
Lot of upset story, neighbouring Malaysia country produced one of them. IM Mok, Tze-Meng rating 2354 and finished Dutch legend GM Loek van Wely in a Kan counter attack Sicilian game. Team mates Lim, Zhuo Ren rating 2120 also deadlock GM Daniel Stellwagen in just 25 moves Sicilian and get a draw. Malaysia still lost narrowly 1.5-2.5 in the final result.
Official web, live games and chess-result
From Indonesian team , playing in Istanbul are:
1 WFM Medina Warda Aulia 2218
2 WIM Sihite Chelsie Monica 2162
3 WFM Citra Dewi 2143
4 Anisa Aisyah Aay
5 Fisabilillah Ummi 0
is Women team. Team flying without WGM Irene Sukandar, but the team looks forward to stealth moments and grab some norms. Round 1 finished with easy 4-0 against Fiji team.
The men:
1 GM Megaranto Susanto 2529
2 IM Purnama Tirta Chandra 2384
3 IM Halay Taufik 2361
4 CM Firmansyah Farid 2318
5 M. Luthfi Ali 2078
seeding at no.62 Indonesian crushed Ethipian team in round 1 and look forward to face Chile team (seed 24) in round 2.
Lot of upset story, neighbouring Malaysia country produced one of them. IM Mok, Tze-Meng rating 2354 and finished Dutch legend GM Loek van Wely in a Kan counter attack Sicilian game. Team mates Lim, Zhuo Ren rating 2120 also deadlock GM Daniel Stellwagen in just 25 moves Sicilian and get a draw. Malaysia still lost narrowly 1.5-2.5 in the final result.
Official web, live games and chess-result
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
2012 World Junior Chess Championship Guo Qi won Tie Break to Medina
Duo Indonesian female chess player, Medina Warda Aulia (2218) and Chelsie Monica Sihite finished their journey in Junior Chess Championship with good performance. Medina is finished 9.5/13 which mean the same point as tournament winner WGM Guo Qi, only that Medina tie break system inferior to all three contestant with the same score. Final standing on female 2012 Junior Chess Championship are:
1 WGM Guo Qi CHN 2358 9.5
2 WGM Ziaziulkina Nastassia BLR 2342 9.5
3 IM Bodnaruk Anastasia RUS 2414 9.5
4 WFM Medina Warda Aulia INA 2218 9.5
5 WIM Arabidze Meri GEO 2379 9.0
6 WGM Cori T Deysi PER 2413 8.5
7 WIM Bulmaga Irina ROU 2380 8.5
8 WIM Sihite Chelsie Monica INA 2162 8.5
9 Wang Jue CHN 2355 8.5
10 WIM Abdulla Khayala AZE 2217 8.5
and more at http://wjcc2012.chessdom.com/results-girls/
Both girls, Medina and Chelsie, performed above their rating and take time to enjoy upsetting upper hand opponents. In round 12 Medina upset Peruvian WGM Deysi T Cori in Queen Indian game and grab advantage from the opening line. She hold the ground all the way and secured a black victory. On round 13 Chelsie also close the tournament with a win, Chelsie scored 8.5/13. In the game against MNE's Jovana Vojinovic, Chelsie won the queen endgame and give her performance of 2319.
The male section was won by Alexander Ipatov , top ten in the final standing are below. CM Farid Firmansyah is in flat result, 7.5/13 and quite under performing.
1 GM Ipatov Alexander TUR 2577 10.0
2 GM Rapport Richard HUN 2605 10.0
3 GM Ding Liren CHN 2695 9.5
4 GM Grandelius Nils SWE 2562 9.5
5 GM Yu Yangyi CHN 2635 9.0
6 GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel ARM 2567 9.0
7 GM Zherebukh Yaroslav UKR 2629 9.0
8 IM Indjic Aleksandar SRB 2481 9.0
9 GM Huschenbeth Niclas GER 2532 9.0
10 IM Hansen Eric CAN 2472 9.0
Medina Warda Aulia Kalah Tipis di perebutan medali Kejuaraan Junior Catur Dunia di kota Athena. Walaupun mengantongi nilai 9.5/13 tetapi sistem tie break yang Medina miliki harus kalah dengan tiga pecatur lainnya. Alhasil hasil ini membuat perjuangan puteri Indonesia harus puas di posisi ke empat. Medina bersama rekan Chelsie Monica Sihite berhasil tampil di atas rating mereka dengan memberi perlawanan dan kemenangan terhadap lawan-lawan dunia yang lebih baik ratingnya. Turnamen ini dimenangkan oleh pecatur China WGM Guo Qi. Hasil tanding Chelsie bisa dilihat di sini. Dua partai catur Chelsie dan Medina bisa dinikmati di bawah ini.
1 WGM Guo Qi CHN 2358 9.5
2 WGM Ziaziulkina Nastassia BLR 2342 9.5
3 IM Bodnaruk Anastasia RUS 2414 9.5
4 WFM Medina Warda Aulia INA 2218 9.5
5 WIM Arabidze Meri GEO 2379 9.0
6 WGM Cori T Deysi PER 2413 8.5
7 WIM Bulmaga Irina ROU 2380 8.5
8 WIM Sihite Chelsie Monica INA 2162 8.5
9 Wang Jue CHN 2355 8.5
10 WIM Abdulla Khayala AZE 2217 8.5
and more at http://wjcc2012.chessdom.com/results-girls/
Both girls, Medina and Chelsie, performed above their rating and take time to enjoy upsetting upper hand opponents. In round 12 Medina upset Peruvian WGM Deysi T Cori in Queen Indian game and grab advantage from the opening line. She hold the ground all the way and secured a black victory. On round 13 Chelsie also close the tournament with a win, Chelsie scored 8.5/13. In the game against MNE's Jovana Vojinovic, Chelsie won the queen endgame and give her performance of 2319.
The male section was won by Alexander Ipatov , top ten in the final standing are below. CM Farid Firmansyah is in flat result, 7.5/13 and quite under performing.
1 GM Ipatov Alexander TUR 2577 10.0
2 GM Rapport Richard HUN 2605 10.0
3 GM Ding Liren CHN 2695 9.5
4 GM Grandelius Nils SWE 2562 9.5
5 GM Yu Yangyi CHN 2635 9.0
6 GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel ARM 2567 9.0
7 GM Zherebukh Yaroslav UKR 2629 9.0
8 IM Indjic Aleksandar SRB 2481 9.0
9 GM Huschenbeth Niclas GER 2532 9.0
10 IM Hansen Eric CAN 2472 9.0
Medina Warda Aulia Kalah Tipis di perebutan medali Kejuaraan Junior Catur Dunia di kota Athena. Walaupun mengantongi nilai 9.5/13 tetapi sistem tie break yang Medina miliki harus kalah dengan tiga pecatur lainnya. Alhasil hasil ini membuat perjuangan puteri Indonesia harus puas di posisi ke empat. Medina bersama rekan Chelsie Monica Sihite berhasil tampil di atas rating mereka dengan memberi perlawanan dan kemenangan terhadap lawan-lawan dunia yang lebih baik ratingnya. Turnamen ini dimenangkan oleh pecatur China WGM Guo Qi. Hasil tanding Chelsie bisa dilihat di sini. Dua partai catur Chelsie dan Medina bisa dinikmati di bawah ini.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Euro 2012 Poland Ukraine - Fantasy Chess
Let's celebrate Euro 2012 also, but in chess version. Here the fantasy Euro 2012 Poland-Ukraine team, but with chess players as the line up. The players are from FIDE highest rating, but I include some of notable name in case they are "missed" by rating in certain country.
It's a good exercise to compare chess as a sport in these country, counter part to their soccer achievement. We missed Magnus Carlsen as Norway is not an Euro 2012 team. Missed also, Bulgaria with Veselin Topalov and Armenia's Levon Aronian as member of top ten chess player.
Here the full line up of fantasy chess based on Euro 2012 football championship.
Group A
The line up quite reflected the real Euro soccer team strength. Russia is the highest here with all star team, with elo at 2770, similar to their soccer team. But by the time of writing, Russia already sent off with 0-1 knock off by Greece. Poland as the home team also suffered the same. So the team of Czech with David Navara and surprisingly Greece will proceed. The only highlight of this group is pairing of David Navara vs Vladimir Kramnik.
Poland Avg Rating = 2662.75 -- eliminated
Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2717
Mateusz Bartel 2677
Bartosz Socko 2635
Milton Kamil 2622
Russia 2770.2 -- eliminated
Vladimir Kramnik 2801
Sergey Karjakin 2779
Alexander Morozevich 2769
Alexander Grischuk 2761
Peter Svidler 2741
Czech Republic 2654.5
David Navara 2706
Viktor Laznicka 2693
Zbynek Hracek 2624
Jiri Stocek 2595
Greece 2607.5
Hristos Banikas 2626
Dimitrios Mastrovasilis 2612
Ioannis Papaioannou 2597
Vasilios Kotronias 2595
Group B
The group of hell in soccer, but not really in chess fantasy. Highest here is Germany, which is a country with all around high in sports. But the anomaly here is Portugal, which is a great soccer team but very low rating in chess. Netherland is also very all around in both soccer and chess and full of talents, but they were went bad in Euro and straight away sent home after just two game. Denmark on other hand very similar to their soccer team which is a dark horse that produced surprised result. Germany team vs Netherland is very good pairing here.
Germany 2664.5
Arkadij Naiditsch 2698
Igor Khenkin 2670
Daniel Fridman 2653
Georg Meier 2637
Netherland 2645.8 -- eliminated
Anish Giri 2693
Loek van Wely 2682
Sergei Tiviakov 2656
Daniel Stellwagen 2630
Erwin L'Ami 2605
Jan Timman 2575
Ivan Sokolov 2680
Denmark 2608.75
Peter Heine Nielsen 2665
Curt Hansen 2619
Sune Berg Hansen 2577
Lars Bo Hansen 2574
Portugal 2474.25
Antonio Antunes 2496
Luis Galego 2481
Diogo Fernando 2466
Paulo Dias 2454
Group C
Spain dominated the elo rating by 15 points. Compared to Ireland which is the elo lowest rating team here, same to their soccer team which is already sent home in two games. Italy come with all young guns team, Caruana is the highest rating here with his 2770 rating. Croatia is at modest 2600 rating and come with very experience team.
Spain 2619.5
Francisco Vallejo Pons 2697
Ivan Salgado Lopez 2623
Oleg Korneev 2586
Manuel Perez Candelario 2572
Italy 2606.5
Fabiano Caruana 2770
Sabino Brunello 2592
Daniele Vocaturo 2543
Michele Godena 2521
Croatia 2600.75
Ivan Saric 2632
Hrvoje Stevic 2601
Zdenko Kozul 2593
Davor Rogic 2577
Ireland 2461.75 -- elimanated
Alexander Baburin 2537
Brian Kelly 2480
Sam Collins 2428
Alex Lopez 2402
Group D
Actually the real group of hell in our fantasy chess Euro. Ukraine come with all 2700+ team, similar to Russian. They are challenged by England and France, with Sweden as the last dark horse here. In soccer as the time of writing, all teams still top their chances to go round 2 except Sweden. Ivanchuk vs Adams and Ponomariov vs Short are some of high pairing here.
Ukraine 2719.6
Vassily Ivanchuk 2764
Ruslan Ponomariov 2726
Alexander Moissenko 2711
Andrei Volokitin 2704
Pavel Eljanov 2693
England 2699
Michael Adams 2728
Luke McShane 2706
Nigel Short 2705
Gawain Jones 2657
France 2690.5
Laurent Fressinet 2715
Etienne Bacrot 2695
Maxime Vachier Lagrave 2680
Christian Bauer 2672
Sweden 2594.5 -- eliminated
Evgenij Agrest 2614
Ferdinand Hellers 2599
Emanuel Berg 2587
Tiger Hillarp Persson 2578
So, it's still left Ukraine as the all 2700 team here, let's see how this can be reflected in soccer. While Spain, Portugal, Italy and Germany is the real favorite in Euro 2012. Will update this.
It's a good exercise to compare chess as a sport in these country, counter part to their soccer achievement. We missed Magnus Carlsen as Norway is not an Euro 2012 team. Missed also, Bulgaria with Veselin Topalov and Armenia's Levon Aronian as member of top ten chess player.
Here the full line up of fantasy chess based on Euro 2012 football championship.
Group A
The line up quite reflected the real Euro soccer team strength. Russia is the highest here with all star team, with elo at 2770, similar to their soccer team. But by the time of writing, Russia already sent off with 0-1 knock off by Greece. Poland as the home team also suffered the same. So the team of Czech with David Navara and surprisingly Greece will proceed. The only highlight of this group is pairing of David Navara vs Vladimir Kramnik.
Poland Avg Rating = 2662.75 -- eliminated
Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2717
Mateusz Bartel 2677
Bartosz Socko 2635
Milton Kamil 2622
Russia 2770.2 -- eliminated
Vladimir Kramnik 2801
Sergey Karjakin 2779
Alexander Morozevich 2769
Alexander Grischuk 2761
Peter Svidler 2741
Czech Republic 2654.5
David Navara 2706
Viktor Laznicka 2693
Zbynek Hracek 2624
Jiri Stocek 2595
Greece 2607.5
Hristos Banikas 2626
Dimitrios Mastrovasilis 2612
Ioannis Papaioannou 2597
Vasilios Kotronias 2595
Group B
The group of hell in soccer, but not really in chess fantasy. Highest here is Germany, which is a country with all around high in sports. But the anomaly here is Portugal, which is a great soccer team but very low rating in chess. Netherland is also very all around in both soccer and chess and full of talents, but they were went bad in Euro and straight away sent home after just two game. Denmark on other hand very similar to their soccer team which is a dark horse that produced surprised result. Germany team vs Netherland is very good pairing here.
Germany 2664.5
Arkadij Naiditsch 2698
Igor Khenkin 2670
Daniel Fridman 2653
Georg Meier 2637
Netherland 2645.8 -- eliminated
Anish Giri 2693
Loek van Wely 2682
Sergei Tiviakov 2656
Daniel Stellwagen 2630
Erwin L'Ami 2605
Jan Timman 2575
Ivan Sokolov 2680
Denmark 2608.75
Peter Heine Nielsen 2665
Curt Hansen 2619
Sune Berg Hansen 2577
Lars Bo Hansen 2574
Portugal 2474.25
Antonio Antunes 2496
Luis Galego 2481
Diogo Fernando 2466
Paulo Dias 2454
Group C
Spain dominated the elo rating by 15 points. Compared to Ireland which is the elo lowest rating team here, same to their soccer team which is already sent home in two games. Italy come with all young guns team, Caruana is the highest rating here with his 2770 rating. Croatia is at modest 2600 rating and come with very experience team.
Spain 2619.5
Francisco Vallejo Pons 2697
Ivan Salgado Lopez 2623
Oleg Korneev 2586
Manuel Perez Candelario 2572
Italy 2606.5
Fabiano Caruana 2770
Sabino Brunello 2592
Daniele Vocaturo 2543
Michele Godena 2521
Croatia 2600.75
Ivan Saric 2632
Hrvoje Stevic 2601
Zdenko Kozul 2593
Davor Rogic 2577
Ireland 2461.75 -- elimanated
Alexander Baburin 2537
Brian Kelly 2480
Sam Collins 2428
Alex Lopez 2402
Group D
Actually the real group of hell in our fantasy chess Euro. Ukraine come with all 2700+ team, similar to Russian. They are challenged by England and France, with Sweden as the last dark horse here. In soccer as the time of writing, all teams still top their chances to go round 2 except Sweden. Ivanchuk vs Adams and Ponomariov vs Short are some of high pairing here.
Ukraine 2719.6
Vassily Ivanchuk 2764
Ruslan Ponomariov 2726
Alexander Moissenko 2711
Andrei Volokitin 2704
Pavel Eljanov 2693
England 2699
Michael Adams 2728
Luke McShane 2706
Nigel Short 2705
Gawain Jones 2657
France 2690.5
Laurent Fressinet 2715
Etienne Bacrot 2695
Maxime Vachier Lagrave 2680
Christian Bauer 2672
Sweden 2594.5 -- eliminated
Evgenij Agrest 2614
Ferdinand Hellers 2599
Emanuel Berg 2587
Tiger Hillarp Persson 2578
So, it's still left Ukraine as the all 2700 team here, let's see how this can be reflected in soccer. While Spain, Portugal, Italy and Germany is the real favorite in Euro 2012. Will update this.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
World Celebrates Champion in Anand-Gelfand 2012
The World Chess Championship of 2012 have come the bittersweet end, Anand and Gelfand push around and finish the compulsory classical time chess games in 6-6 score out of 12 rounds. The tie break to decide the ultimate chess champion will be done soon. In will be a battle of four rapids following 9 set of blitz game and an armageddon, can you believe it.
Okay, here the tie break edition of "Grandmaster commentaries compilation", I hope everyone enjoy, I uploaded this two hours earlier to the game. Here the premonition, early bragging, quotation of many chess celebrities for the historic match before the start of tie break round.
Magnus Carlsen - twitter
Really looking forward to the tiebreak of Anand-Gelfand tomorrow. It's like in football, even after a boring 0-0 draw you want to watch ET
Mikhail Golubev @mikhail_golubev
I hope that Anand & Gelfand will play today some interesting games at least. Whether this rapid is of the paramount importance, I doubt so.
Silvio Danailov @SilvioDanailov (President of European Chess Union)
Waiting for exciting tiebreak today.So far,the most interesting thing of the match were the paintings from Tretyakov gallery:)
Kramnik
Anand’s the favourite in that format against any opponent. It’s his thing. His game. On the other hand, Gelfand has in his favour the fact that he plays tiebreaks extremely well. If they were simply going to play a match in rapid chess then Anand would be the clear favourite, but Gelfand has a very good ability to concentrate at the essential moment, and he plays tiebreaks extremely strongly. So I’d say the question of who’ll win a tiebreak (if, of course, one takes place) remains an open one.
After Rapid 2 Anand - Gelfand 1.5-0.5
Rapid 2, Sicilian Rossolimo. After a messy king exposed for both side, Gelfand give up pawn for piece coordination. In a second he seems managed to solve the problem, but in time trouble, Gelfand didn't survive. It was a 77 moves game.
Erwin l'Ami @erwinlami
@SusanPolgar Feel chesswise Gelfand is not inferior this match. He basically outplayed Vishy from a very difficult (prepared!) position.
Jon Ludvig Hammer @gmjlh
Watching the exciting WCC final. Go Nielsen ;)
Alexander Ipatov @Ipatov_Chess
I think the next game Gelfand will start with 1.c4 avoiding long theory. But who knows,maybe he will go for some rare line in Slav.
Mark Crowther @MarkTWIC
Svidler, 160 million people for live broadcast in Tamil and Hindu according to the official site. 225,000 people listening to English broadcast.
Rapid 3 and 4 - World Champion Viswanathan Anand defended his title!
In Rapid 3, Gelfand put in excellent opening in Semi-Slav and in fact get a +2 score from engines. He blowed up Nxe4 with a blunder Rxb8 and draw. The Rapid 4 saw Gelfand attacking from Black side of Sicilian, firing most of his pawn, but then time trouble again press Gelfand unable to crack Anand. It's a draw and overall the World Championship match only produced 3 decisive result!
Anand: "I'm mainly relieved, I understand that in all fairness this match could have gone either way."
"I cannot remember such a black day as after game 7. Game 8 was very important for my morale."
Pogonina At first I wanted to go for a walk with@Kosteniuk, but now I am enjoying the show and hoping for blitz! :D
Anand says he wasn't trying to get to the tie-break like many people thought. But also didn't want to do something crazy to avoid it.
Both players are smiling shyly and saying that it's not the right time to disclose who helped them unofficially besides the seconds.
Gelfand: The public started wanting me to retire since 1998. "Wrong format; weak opponents; swan's song". I am just doing my job.
Erwin l'Ami @erwinlami
I'm amazed how Gelfand keeps the game going! Extremely resourceful
Spectaculair final day! These rapids could easily have gone either way!
Susan Polgar @SusanPolgar
Anand did his job. Gelfand can claim moral victory for putting Anand against the ropes but almost doesn't count in a World Championship
Ian Nepomniachtchi @lachesisq
It was hard to call the Gelfand favorite, but he acted convincingly, and perhaps deserved success of the outcome to a greater extent.
from 29 May
Hikaru Nakamura @GMHikaru
I must be a very bad chess player since I keep liking Anand's positions and he keeps offering draws instead of trying to win.
Sergey Shipov's Chess in Translation for All Rapid Games
Gelfand – Anand, rapid game 1
Anand – Gelfand, rapid game 2
Gelfand – Anand, rapid game 3
Anand – Gelfand, rapid game 4
Okay, here the tie break edition of "Grandmaster commentaries compilation", I hope everyone enjoy, I uploaded this two hours earlier to the game. Here the premonition, early bragging, quotation of many chess celebrities for the historic match before the start of tie break round.
Magnus Carlsen - twitter
Really looking forward to the tiebreak of Anand-Gelfand tomorrow. It's like in football, even after a boring 0-0 draw you want to watch ET
Mikhail Golubev @mikhail_golubev
I hope that Anand & Gelfand will play today some interesting games at least. Whether this rapid is of the paramount importance, I doubt so.
Silvio Danailov @SilvioDanailov (President of European Chess Union)
Waiting for exciting tiebreak today.So far,the most interesting thing of the match were the paintings from Tretyakov gallery:)
Kramnik
Anand’s the favourite in that format against any opponent. It’s his thing. His game. On the other hand, Gelfand has in his favour the fact that he plays tiebreaks extremely well. If they were simply going to play a match in rapid chess then Anand would be the clear favourite, but Gelfand has a very good ability to concentrate at the essential moment, and he plays tiebreaks extremely strongly. So I’d say the question of who’ll win a tiebreak (if, of course, one takes place) remains an open one.
After Rapid 2 Anand - Gelfand 1.5-0.5
Rapid 2, Sicilian Rossolimo. After a messy king exposed for both side, Gelfand give up pawn for piece coordination. In a second he seems managed to solve the problem, but in time trouble, Gelfand didn't survive. It was a 77 moves game.
Erwin l'Ami @erwinlami
@SusanPolgar Feel chesswise Gelfand is not inferior this match. He basically outplayed Vishy from a very difficult (prepared!) position.
Jon Ludvig Hammer @gmjlh
Watching the exciting WCC final. Go Nielsen ;)
Alexander Ipatov @Ipatov_Chess
I think the next game Gelfand will start with 1.c4 avoiding long theory. But who knows,maybe he will go for some rare line in Slav.
Mark Crowther @MarkTWIC
Svidler, 160 million people for live broadcast in Tamil and Hindu according to the official site. 225,000 people listening to English broadcast.
Rapid 3 and 4 - World Champion Viswanathan Anand defended his title!
In Rapid 3, Gelfand put in excellent opening in Semi-Slav and in fact get a +2 score from engines. He blowed up Nxe4 with a blunder Rxb8 and draw. The Rapid 4 saw Gelfand attacking from Black side of Sicilian, firing most of his pawn, but then time trouble again press Gelfand unable to crack Anand. It's a draw and overall the World Championship match only produced 3 decisive result!
Anand: "I'm mainly relieved, I understand that in all fairness this match could have gone either way."
"I cannot remember such a black day as after game 7. Game 8 was very important for my morale."
Pogonina At first I wanted to go for a walk with
Anand says he wasn't trying to get to the tie-break like many people thought. But also didn't want to do something crazy to avoid it.
Both players are smiling shyly and saying that it's not the right time to disclose who helped them unofficially besides the seconds.
Gelfand: The public started wanting me to retire since 1998. "Wrong format; weak opponents; swan's song". I am just doing my job.
Erwin l'Ami @erwinlami
I'm amazed how Gelfand keeps the game going! Extremely resourceful
Spectaculair final day! These rapids could easily have gone either way!
Susan Polgar @SusanPolgar
Anand did his job. Gelfand can claim moral victory for putting Anand against the ropes but almost doesn't count in a World Championship
Ian Nepomniachtchi
It was hard to call the Gelfand favorite, but he acted convincingly, and perhaps deserved success of the outcome to a greater extent.
from 29 May
Hikaru Nakamura @GMHikaru
I must be a very bad chess player since I keep liking Anand's positions and he keeps offering draws instead of trying to win.
Sergey Shipov's Chess in Translation for All Rapid Games
Gelfand – Anand, rapid game 1
Anand – Gelfand, rapid game 2
Gelfand – Anand, rapid game 3
Anand – Gelfand, rapid game 4
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